Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Placements?....Really?

Now after two months of work as placement coordinator....
I have reached a saturation of frustration....

Its not just the T&P that sucks but many things in Corporate world suck.

Chapter 1 Adobe:
Adobe is a company which is has supposedly blacklisted DCE.
along with ST Micro,Microsoft and schlum.

All other companies have started visting DCE except Adobe.

We really tried hard to work it out.
Called their HR for like 17 times a day.
He never came on the phone.

We kept calling him, mailing him reminders etc etc.

Then finally we got hold of our HOD on this and he agreed to "let us use his mail"
We mailed the HR a reminder,
That guy turned down the direct invitation from HOD.

Next day they visited NSIT.

We contacted their Bangalore office sometime back.
Their HR was really happy on getting an invitation from DCE,
We mailed him the invitation.

He said that we will soon hear from their noida office,
This clearly proves that none of the managing team was informed about the invitation from DCE.
They had absolutely no reason of not visiting DCE.
Nobody else in adobe knew that our invitation has been turned down.

Their HR has something personal against DCE.

Chapter 2 Amazon:
Amazon showed good interest in NSIT and very less in DCE from first day itself.
All was due to poor performance of our seniors.
Still they took one intern from our batch.

They informed that they will come.
Suddenly they decided to go with interns.

They scrapped DCE off their list.
Dont know whether NSIT is on their list or not.

After that they called me twice to apologies of not visiting DCE.
They even sent a long regret letter to HOD.
Atleast they showed some professionalism unlike adobe.
But,whatever is the case we really missed another company.

Chapter 3:Realization
Adobe took only 2 ppl 1 from coe and 1 from it at NSIT.
Amazon also said that that it has very less requirement.

We realized the sadest part of our placement season.
"Courtesy Visits"
This is a phenomenon when company just to maintain its goodwill and its relationship with college visits a campus just for the sake of it.

Chapter 4:IOCL
IOCL was a great work from our side,first time in history of iocl 4 braches were open.
Although it was lot that took from us to make it happen.

Chapter 5:Maruti

Most unprofessional of the lot.
Their Assistant HR was so whined up with DCE,
He abused our college and us too.
Their GM,HR's daughter got admission in the BT at DCE.

Their Assistant HR, literally suggested us to kiss ass of GM,HR on the day of her daughter's counseling.
They forced us to talk about her hostel and all.

On the day of visit too he kept kicking our asses about college.
Reason behind all this crap:
Assistant HR's daughter is in NSIT.

Chapter 6:TCE
After downturn in IT its the era of core companies.
TCE consulting engineers also behaved unprofessionally.
They took two days to select just 4 students that too in A grade job.

They opened quite a lot of branches initially.
After accepting applications right before PPT.
They closed down Enviromental Engineering.

On the next day they told us the time as 10 am
and came at 11:30
They told us that they will declare result by that day.
But result was told by 7pm next day.

Chapter 7:BHEL
We were so happy to see BHEL as 7 branches open.
6lpa etc etc.
We were so happy.
We arranged everything for them at campus visit scheduled on 11Aug.

The guy called on 10th afternoon.
and said things in points :
  • we will conduct interviews off campus.
  • we will not require coe/it.
No further discussion,after that we tried to approach him through our HOD.
HOD said "if you can"
and he said "no we can't"
on all things,
HOD did not say anything about accepted applications and brightness of students.
Their academic profile nothing.


Epilogue T&P staff:
The day we got elected we got warning from our senior PC's that t&P staff will fuck your ass, and wont let you work.

No batch till now have faced this much bad times,so no body was harmed by the adverse conditions of DCE t&p

there are mainly two characters in the staff:Oldy and Jat and a Biggie.

Biggie:
Erratic,least concerned, apathetic towards the placements.
Told on our second meeting with him,that
"This work is secondary my PhD students are my first priority."
Hard to find,
Hard to call,
difficult to bear with his EGO.
Has all the responsibility of T&P.

Jaat:
ettiqutteless,mannerless but behaves oppositely in front of girls.
Downloads porn and movies using t&p broadband.
uses phone at our peak time just to not let us call.
kicks us out at 4.
Does a job of a security guard rather than stano.
Threatened me of hitting.
Delibrately fights with us to get us fired by the biggie.
Gets support of the oldy in the process.


Oldy:
Totally etiqutteless ,smokes bidi all the time.
sleeps and drinks(alcohol) in the break.
Fights with us over water and food.
Debarred us from eating with the company HR's on their request.
Eats all the food and offers it to all gurads,sweepers,electricians etc.
Denied "sarkari" companies sweets.
We had to approach biggie to solve the matter and arrange the proper luch for companies.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Life is a big Trade off...

Its a quite known funda to us that everything in nature has its trade-offs.
But we know this funda for physical things not in life.

Well,in most of the people's life we trade off good things at every point.
Some trade off money for time and time for money,
example, taking auto to college for being on time and for saving 25 rs on RTV.
well this is trivial though.

But some trade off's are quite opposite, like trade off between dignity and survival.
Yes, prostitutes do this for survival of their children, its a trade off.

Trade off between culture and fashion(in India).
between love and sex(atleast guys do this)
between reality and dreams.
Think about it,Havent you ever dumped your dream just because something real didnt happen right.

There is a trade off between friends and success also.
Its a famous saying that success brings many enemies(some times these are ex friends)

Trade off between popularity and autonomy.
Autonomy leads to dictatorship,and dictators are never popular

Trade off between respect and innocence.
Sometimes in life true innocence of heart can take respect out of you.

Trade off between death and health.
Trade off between focus and enjoyment.
Well,this one is somewhat arbit but its quite deep,if you start enjoying yourself just before exams or anything you will definitely loose focus.

Trade off between beauty and age.
trade off between Loss and Confidence

Actually whole of life is a trade off between
somethings, but biggest trade off in life is

between
heart and mind,
this is trade off which decides an individual personality and his life.

So play your cards right ,life is nothing but a big trade off.